Now, see, that’s why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy…the trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn’t agree with you, all that’s left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThis is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Many of us who aren’t farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.
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I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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I know I’m a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
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Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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People ask without wanting to know.
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A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.
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Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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